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Growing Up Online
Channel: PBS
Length: 3389
Date: August 10, 2009
What does it mean to be part of the first generation coming of age in the Internet era? This report received a 2009 Emmy nomination for Outstandin...
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The Polio Crusade
Channel: PBS
Length: 3205
Date: August 10, 2009
In the summer of 1950 Wytheville, VA realized the nation’s worst medical fears. An outbreak of Infantile Paralysis, commonly known as Polio, swept...
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Season 6, Episode 10
Channel: PBS
Length: 3247
Date: August 10, 2009
Did this record play a dramatic role in the Allied victory during the Second World War? Does this letter link an American President to the high sea...
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The Medicated Child
Channel: PBS
Length: 3376
Date: August 10, 2009
Millions of U.S. children are taking psychiatric drugs, most never tested on kids. Good medicine - or an uncontrolled experiment?
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The Journal: Lincoln’s Legend & Legacy
Channel: PBS
Length: 3112
Date: August 10, 2009
In this special performance edition of Bill Moyers Journal acclaimed actor Sam Waterston and historian Harold Holzer explore Lincoln’s legacy and l...
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Grand Rapids, Hour 1
Channel: PBS
Length: 3171
Date: August 10, 2009
Antiques Roadshow drives to the Gilmore Car Museum near Grand Rapids, Michigan, for a look at their collection of more than 1500 hood ornaments or...
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The Beauty of Ugly
Channel: PBS
Length: 3059
Date: August 10, 2009
In the natural world, beauty can be many things — including what we might find completely repulsive.  Not only can the b...
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The Lobotomist
Channel: PBS
Length: 3286
Date: August 10, 2009
In the 1940s Dr. Walter Freeman gained fame for perfecting the lobotomy, then hailed as a miracle cure for the severely mentally ill. But within a...
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Heart of Jenin
Channel: PBS
Length: 3077
Date: August 10, 2009
When a Palestinian boy was killed by Israeli soldiers who mistook his toy gun for the real thing, his death could have been just one news story. I...
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NBR for July 8, 2009
Channel: PBS
Length: 1460
Date: August 10, 2009
Top stories include: VP Joe Biden announces a deal with nation’s hospitals.  Google takes on Microsoft with a new OS, and Paul Lar...
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NBR for August 6, 2009
Channel: PBS
Length: 1340
Date: August 10, 2009
Top stories include: The jobs picture is less bad, regulator James Lockhart offers a Fannie Mae/Freddie Mac update, and Scott Gurvey reviews Windo...
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Kilauea: Mountain of Fire
Channel: PBS
Length: 3002
Date: August 10, 2009
Kilauea, on Hawaii’s Big Island, is the world's most active volcano.  Its latest eruption began in 1983 and it ha...
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The Assassination of Abraham Lincoln
Channel: PBS
Length: 5053
Date: August 10, 2009
Just days after the Civil War ended, President Abraham Lincoln was assassinated at Ford’s Theatre. As a fractured nation mourned, a manhunt closed...
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The Spy Factory
Channel: PBS
Length: 3163
Date: August 10, 2009
Examine the high-tech eavesdropping carried out by the National Security Agency and the pitfalls of surveillance in an age of terrorism.
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Dallas, Hour 2
Channel: PBS
Length: 3172
Date: August 10, 2009
Antiques Roadshow and host Mark L. Walberg ride into Dallas, Texas, where everything is larger than life.
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NBR for July 13, 2009
Channel: PBS
Length: 1469
Date: August 10, 2009
Top stories include: Business lender CIT Group might be headed for bankruptcy.  Plus, the trillion dollar deficit, and mar...
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Roberto Clemente
Channel: PBS
Length: 3193
Date: August 10, 2009
AMERICAN EXPERIENCE presents Roberto Clemente. Born in Puerto Rico, Clemente was an exceptional baseball player and humanitarian whose career she...
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Holy Cow
Channel: PBS
Length: 3107
Date: August 10, 2009
About 8,000 years ago, the relationship between cows and man began with the revolutionary advent of domestication in Mesopotamia, the Indus River ...
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Rules of Engagement
Channel: PBS
Length: 3389
Date: August 10, 2009
What happened that November day in Haditha, Iraq gets to the heart of the war U.S. troops are fighting.  This report received a 2...
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Episode 2: Controlled Chaos
Channel: PBS
Length: 3271
Date: August 10, 2009
The men and women of the USS Nimitz live beneath the runway of a major airport. They sleep on the roof of a nuclear power plant. It’s a perilous en...
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